The Roost — Restaurant in Stowe

Operating a restaurant during COVID times is certainly challenging and, Roost did a good job of making our party feel safe.

Prices for entrees run from $25-$44 per plate. Our party ate for $65/person with a drink and tip. This is certainly towards the high side and, places Roost just into the "Fine Dining" category, price-wise.

The menu is interesting but, not very inspired. Lot's of sandwiches, including a basic burger for the price of a good steak.

I had the braised short ribs ($35). The taste was fine but, the meat was slightly overcooked and dry. Usually, braised short-ribs leave a little "juice" on the plate. Nothing there. The plate also included a nice-sized serving of sweet corn polenta which was delicious but, "set-up" with a slight crust, probably from sitting. Candied Carrots, too, and they were good. I think the disappointment was the meat.

Another member of our party had a beet salad and, she was very disappointed. The salad had a mundane vinaigrette dressing. No cheese, which usually accompanies beets in a salad and, no nuts even though the menu listed them. All-in-all, a very boring, not delicious $25 salad. Boo.

Service was adequate but, the waitress exhibited signs of inadequate training. The restaurant was not busy yet, the waitress more or less disappeared after serving our meals. One of our party was compelled to get up and find her so, we could get some salt and pepper. At one point, someone ordered another glass of wine. The waitress poured the glass from the bottle at the table (ok). The pour wasn't quite 2/3rds and the bottle was nearly empty so, the waitress dumped the last half inch of wine from the bottle into the glass with a vertical pour, thus dumping the sediment from the bottle into the glass. Very amateur. Finally, after we paid, the waitress came back to the table and asked us why we didn't leave a good tip. The thing is we did leave a 20% tip but, she had the check confused with another check...

The problem with Roost is that it charges "fine dining" prices but, doesn't deliver the fine dining experience. If the tab was 25% less, the food and service would have been adequate but, given the prices,...

Tried the Roost for lunch today with my husband and two kids. We arrived and it wasn’t busy at all so we thought it would be a quick in and out.. boy were we wrong. It started out with my glass being dirty then we ordered.. grilled cheese and fries for one child cheese pizza for the other and I ordered the burger $23, my husband had the BLT.. after waiting over 35 mins our kids orders arrived. The grilled cheese bread was hard and the cheese was cold and not melted. The pizza was very small but eatable. Then after another 15 mins when our kids were finishing what they were able to eat our orders arrived. Both plates were scorching hot as if they had been sitting under heat lamps for the last 15 mins all lettuce on both were mush and black like it had been cooked. The bacon was not fully cooked on the BLT and the burger was smaller then what you would pay $8 for at FIVE GUYS.. BEWARE. We would never...

Went here for my dads 80th and had the worst meal. We each had NY strip ordered medium/rare. It took forever to get the meal. Restaurant only had a couple tables. When the steaks came they were barely warm and mainly fat. So tough we couldn’t chew it. When we tried to get the waiters attention the whole staff were huddled at the bar not paying any attention. My dad finally got up and asked the waiter to come to the table. He took the steaks and said he would fire new ones. He didn’t the same steak came back just cooked a little more. They did bring new steak fries but they were still cold inside. The pics attached are AFTER they refired the same grisly steak and it was mostly fat. The only reason they get 2 stars is the manager comped both meals...